Class-7 English Reader (Special) The Arrow and the Song / M.P. Board

Lesson-8

The Arrow and the Song

Exercises

Answer the following questions:

    Q1.    Who is the poet of this poem?

   Ans- The poet of this poem is H.W. Longfellow.

    Q2.    Where does the poet shoot an arrow?

  Ans- The poet shot arrow into the air.

    Q3.    Where does the poet breathe a song?

  Ans- The poet breathed song into the air.

    Q4.    Where does the poet find the arrow?

   Ans- The poet found the arrow in an oak.

    Q5.    Where does the poet find the song?

  Ans- The poet found the song in the heart of a friend.

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Tick the correct option:

(i)        The poet shoots an arrow into the air

        (a) the air           (b) an oak              (c) the sky      (d) the sea

(ii)      The song falls on the earth

        (a) the earth      (b) the table           (c) an oak      (d) chair

(iii)     The poet finds the song in the heart of a friend

        (a) an oak          (b) the heart of a friend   (c) the sky      (d) the river

Special English-2      Special English-3 

Choose the correct words to complete the sentences:

1.    He is an heir to his father’s property. (air/heir)

2.    She is very dear to me. (dear/deer)

3.    He often comes here. (hear/here)

4.    Where do you live? (where/wear)

5.    He has a very bad eye sight. (site/sight)

Complete the poem:

I breathed a song into the air,

It fell to earth, I knew not where;

For, who has sight so keen and strong,

That it can follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak

I found the arrow still unbroke;

And the song, from beginning to end’

I found again in the heart of a friend.

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